Imagine attending a concert, lecture, or seminar where music is applied as medicine to support your intention deeply: making you feel much better, unforgettably informed, and more profoundly connected. You can make this happen when:
As an audience member, advocate with event organizers to infuse their programming with the Music Medicine Protocol.
As a band member, advocate with your band leaders, songwriters, and composers to write music that programs the event, following the Mood Sequence Formula that targets optimal healing potential for your fans.
As a producer, require musicians, songwriters, and composers to deliver Music Medicine, following the components learned in the Music Medicine training, which includes all genres.
As indicated by two preliminary studies using the MEE™ Concert, Judith performed “live” violin during her accredited seminars, accompanied by the band or a music-minus-one recording of the band. A three-year exploratory study (1991-1993) of participants (n = 212) revealed a significant effect (p<.01), employing a paired samples T-test (“Brace for Impact,” Pinkerton, 2019, pg 13).
Negative Current States reduced significantly (mean=3.03; std dev.=4.43; t=9.98; df=211)
Positive Current States improved significantly (mean=-6.39; std. dev. 5.75; t=-16.18; df=211)
In the beginning, Music4Life® Founder and Creator of the Music Medicine Protocol Judith Pinkerton investigated audience preferences during her concerts, informally studying attendees’ preferences for solo violin selections classified into five mood groupings. These groupings progressed into “negative-neutral-positive,” which the author renamed the U.S.E. M.E.E. Model, with three mood categories: “Unsettled-Soothed-Energized.”
The U.S.E. M.E.E. Model advanced the MEE™ Concert, developed from theories founded in neuroscience and psychology research. Pinkerton produced the MEE™ Concert (1991), a specialized Mood Sequence Formula performed with her band of violin, piano, synthesizer, bass, and drums. The end result: a catharsis, a purification of emotions, which changes the intensity of experience of problem moods.
Therapy Concert for Better Health
92%
Gained new strategies to use music for personal growth and well-being.
87%
Audiences increased positive mood states by 87% after one time listening to the MEE™ Concert.
67%
Experienced reduced feelings of unsettledness with music applied as medicine.
